Roles of urban vegetation on balance

Roles of urban vegetation on balance of carbon and oxygen in Guangzhou, China

The plant biomass and net primary production(NPP) of urban vegetation in Guangzhou were estimated by dimension analysis, treetruck volume, and harvest methods as well as relationship between biomass and NPP and so on.The biomass and NPP were respectively2875150t and 1058122 t/a.They were respectively 392495t and 64948 t/a in the built-up area and 2482655t and 993147 t/a in the unbuilt-uparea.It would make plant biomass, especially NPP decline obviously, if the unbuilt-up area were changed to the built-up area.The carboncontent of plant was 1328649 for the total and 13.78 t/hm2 for the mean, and amounts of carbon fixed and oxygen made by urban vegetationwere respectively 4.80 t/(hm2 @a) and 12.79 t/(hm2 @a) for the mean and 462624 t/a and 1232430 t/a for the total, which were equal to 1.45times and 1.04 times of those by human breathing.However, they were only equal to 7.61% and 4.97% of amount of carbon released andoxygen consumption in urban Guangzhou.The biomass and NPP of urban vegetation in Guangzhou only corresponded to 7.8% and 47.3% ofthose of southern subtropical evergreen broad-leaf forest in Dinghu Mountain.Therefore, the roles of Guangzhou urban vegetation in balance ofcarbon and oxygen would be increased greatly if it could be conserved and improved in some way.

作 者： Guan Dong-sheng CHEN Yu-juan   作者单位： Department of Environmental Science, Zhongshan University, Guangzhou 510275, China  刊 名： 环境科学学报(英文版)  ISTIC SCI 英文刊名： JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES  年，卷(期)： 2003 15(2)  分类号： Q149  关键词： urban vegetation   carbon   oxygen   balance   Guangzhou  

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